Guest  +  1353 Thu, 26 Jun 03 09:13 PM Can you please tell me the name for two nouns joined by 'and' that take the possessive apostrophe after the second noun only (e.g. 'Tom and Jerry' as in 'Tom and Jerry's antics')? Could you also tell me the name (if different) for similarly structured nouns that take singular rather than plural verbs (e.g. 'Health and safety' as in 'Health and safety is important')? I've looked up 'group nouns' and 'composite nouns' but neither seems appropriate. Thank you. Guest Verbs, Plurals, Possessives, Nouns, Apostrophes

	whl626  +  12928 Fri, 14 Nov 03 01:35 AM ' Bread and butter is essential to life ' I got it from a grammar book. But some native speakers don't agree to it. They rather use ' are ' ... , they said. whl626 Joined on Sun, Aug 24 2003 Regular Member 882 Learn English every day Grammar